Jaime Gonzalez is a co-founder, Chairman & CEO of AO Capital Partners. Prior to joining AOCapital, he held senior executive positions with a major U.S. investment bank in Asia. Mr. Gonzalez was Vice Chairman and President of Philippine International Trading Corporation, the trading arm of the Philippine Government, and special trade negotiator of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Philippines. He also serves on the boards of a number of publicly listed companies including Euromoney PLC (UK), Export Industry Bank and EIB Realty (Philippines).

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Roger Stone is a UK national with more than 37 years experience in the areas of marketing, sales, software development and executive management in the Information Technology and Telecommunications industries. Roger has developed specialized expertise in establishing new operations, including joint ventures, in emerging markets particularly in Europe and Asia. Over 25 years of his working life has been on international assignments in UK, Austria, Hong Kong, India, Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand and Costa Rica. His career has included 25 years with Unisys Corp, mainly in Asia, notably heading operations in India and the Philippines, three years as head of retail operations for IDT Corp in Europe, 5 years as an independent consultant, and, immediately prior to joining IPVG, Roger was CEO of IQ-Ludorum plc. He graduated from Loughborough University of Technology in the United Kingdom with an Honours degree in Aero /Automotive Engineering.

Marco Y. Santos is currently a Director of iPeople Inc. (PSE: IPO), whose key lines of business are focused on education and information technology. He is also Vice-Chairman of Tholons Southeast Asia, a consulting firm that specializes on business process outsourcing (BPO) and Executive Director for American Orient Capital Partners (Philippines), Inc. He was also the Chief Operating Officer of Mapua IT Center (a subsidiary of Mapua Institute of Technology) and Founder/CEO/Chairman of Edsamail. His career also includes a 3-year Marketing stint with Fuji Xerox Co. of Japan. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Management Engineering from the Ateneo De Manila University.

Enrique oversees strategic direction of the group, and directly handles all investment-related activities including fund-raising, mergers & acquisitions, and exit. Enrique has been intimately involved in the start-up process of all business units, and responsible for working with business unit heads in meeting or exceeding operating targets.

Enrique has had a successful track record in the internet space; having founded a series of internet start-ups that have been acquired by larger U.S. - based firms (match.ph/itzamatch.com) and has taken IPVG from garage to public.

Amongst Enrique’s recently concluded deals under IPVG Corp. include:

• Strategic partnership with PCCW (NYSE: PCCW) for the Philippine market for BPO and Telecommunications.
• Acquisition of Influent, top 15 telemarketing / call centre companies in the USA.
• US$18M fund raising program from institutional investors such as ING, BDO, RCBC Capital, Abacus Securities and Philippine Star.
• Acquisition of Prolexic Technologies, leader in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) mitigation services in the world.

Enrique has a Bachelor of Arts in International Politics and Economics from Middlebury College, attended the program for Masters in Entrepreneurship at the Asian Institute of Management, and completed Business courses from Sophia University in Tokyo. Enrique is considered an expert authority on the Internet and online games space. Prior to IPVG, Enrique was involved in investment banking with a focus on fund-raising and restructuring.

Emmanuel Jalandoni
Chief Finance Offier

Emmanuel Jalandoni was Chief Finance Officer for Edsamail Holdings Pte. Ltd., an e-commerce company and Internet Service Provider that pioneered the free email services in the country.  Prior to that, he was also the Program Sales Manager for Wholesale Banking Solutions at Unisys Asia Division from 1998 to 2000 and held various positions in banking at Citibank, N.A., Manila branch from 1990 to 1997.  As the current group Chief Finance Officer of IPVG, he is in charge of Accounting, Finance and Treasury operations of the parent company and of the different subsidiaries.  He has a Science degree from the Ateneo de Manila University, majoring in Management Engineering.




Reynaldo Huergas
President - IP-Converge

Rene Huergas was VP of fixed networks at Globe Telecom, and President / Director of Global Data Hub, formerly Ayala Port. Apart from Rene's having held senior management positions in Unisys in the Philippines, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Indonesia, he also worked in Silicon Valley at iAsiaworks, a venture-funded company engaged in IDC services within the Asia Pacific region, headquartered in Sunnyvale, California; as well as a content provider in Burlingame, California.

Steve Tsao has held various management positions over seven (7) years within the companies Dupont and Corning. He has had specific experience in the wide scale deployment of IT Solutions and Operational Integrations of Mergers & Acquisitions. Steve has an MBA from Babson College (presently ranked #1 for Entrepreneurship) and studied International Business at Harvard Business School. Steve is a pioneer in MMORPGs (Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games), having consulted on the development of some of the top games on the market, as well as over ten (10) years experience creating and leading online gaming communities.

Dondi Chiongbian initially joined the IPVG group in 2006 as a Business Consultant/Project Director, and was instrumental in the research, design and development of IPVG's payment and remittance business. Prior to this, he was connected with the Renoir Group where he specialized in the analysis and implementation of organizational change which resulted in significant, measurable, and sustainable profit for companies - in the banking, finance, logistics, manufacturing, processing, medical and health, real estate and telecommunications industries - across the Asia Pacific and the United States. He also held various positions in Eastern Shipping Lines and Eastern International Plastic Packaging Corp. He has an MBA from the Asian Institute of Management in the Philippines and holds a degree in Finance from the George Washington University in Washington DC, USA.

Manny Fernando has over 13 years of experience in mobile and telecom industries on the areas of Sales, Marketing, Product Management and Business Development. He has worked with reputable companies such as IslaCom, Ericsson, Sendo International and Wireless Services Asia Inc.

Manny spearheads the overall management of the integrated mobile VAS activities of IPVG, its subsidiaries and affiliates. His role includes strategic development, commercial partnership programs and P&L management for the mobile initiatives of the IPVG group. He has a Masters Degree in International Business Management from Thunderbird, Arizona, USA.

Warren Liu has eight (8) years of experience in the Gaming and Technology Industry. He has consulted and managed network solutions for clients in the United States as well as throughout Asia. He is the founder of Wewp!, one of the first gaming review websites, which subsequently made a successful transition to a private financing group. He is the founder and director of Virtual Batavia a pioneering company in the mobile and technology sector. He has been one of the pioneers in the MMOG space in terms of community and market understanding.

Antonio Jose Garcia
VP for Investor Relations

Antonio Jose Garcia is a Marketing graduate of De La Salle University, with over 25 years experience in operations management, stock brokerage and portfolio management securities dealing and customer service with AGJ Securities Corp, Vantage Securities Corp. and UOB Securities Corp. He also has extensive experience in the creation, launching, development, and overall management of various businesses, more particularly for Philweb Corp., where he was formerly a Senior Vice President.




Pia Arellano
VP for Marketing

Pia Arellano has been a marketing and business development practitioner for over 13 years and has gained extensive experience from both banking & finance and telecommunications industries. She has held key management positions in Citibank, Bayantel, Islacom and Security Bank. Her most recent stint prior to joining IPVG was at Western Union Financial Services International as Business Development Manager for the Philippines. Pia likewise served as full-time faculty for Marketing and Brand Management at the John Gokongwei School of Management of Ateneo de Manila.

Pia heads the Marketing and Corporate Communications Group of IPVG. Her primary role is to build brand equity for the company and each of its subsidiaries by ensuring communications strategy, creative output and campaign executions are all attuned with the IPVG’s VMO. Pia is a cum-laude graduate from the University of the Philippines, School of Economics. She pursued her post-graduate degree in European Business at the Ecole Superieure des Sciences Commerciales d’ Angers (ESSCA) in France.